Lighting Industry

Metrolight, a manufacturer of electronic HID ballasts, has announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dana Point, California. The company’s operations center will remain in Brentwood,TN. The U.S. team is expanding in response to growing demand for Metrolight’s products. The move to California is a tactical one as 30% of the country’s energy consumption is [...]

HUNT Dimming has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), comprised of a panel of three judges, has issued a precedent ruling in favor of HUNT, denying Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Philips) trademark application 79006105 for “SENSE and SIMPLICITY” in International Class 9 for opposed lighting goods, culminating a six-year process. The [...]

Tivoli has launched a redesigned website and new online design gallery at TivoliLighting.com. The new site was created to enhance the user experience and engage the visitor, offering mobile access to all of Tivoli’s product information and a variety of application and design guides. It provides lighting designers, architects and other lighting specifier’s instant access [...]

Manufacturer Kurt Versen recently announced the launch of its new website. Highlights include: * Three search methods (product criteria, keyword, classic Kurt Versen electronic catalog) * New comparison feature * IES files with design assist room calculator * Featured products * Kurt Versen news Click here to visit the new Kurt Versen website.

Tech Lighting has announced that it is now on Facebook. Visit and “like.”

Amerlux has announced the February 15 opening of Guangzhou Amerlux Lighting Solutions Co. Ltd., the company’s new facility in China, as well as a Hong Kong sales office. The new facility features showrooms that highlight the quality of Amerlux’s product lines. The new location also features technologically sophisticated offices, training spaces and distribution facilities. “Amerlux [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I have finally completed the long awaited (by my publisher) update to The Lighting Management Handbook, which came out in 1994, with this 300-page book about redesigning existing lighting systems: Lighting Redesign for Existing Buildings. Because light is used to see but cannot be seen, it is often overlooked by [...]

As Global 100 companies continue to move manufacturing, management functions and jobs overseas, CeeLite Technologies, LLC feels that despite lower foreign labor costs, the reputed benefits of manufacturing in Asia didn’t stack up in their highly technical marketplace. Once made in Taiwan, the highly acclaimed Light Emitting Capacitor (LEC) technology manufactured by CeeLite Technologies is [...]

I received the below career opportunity notice from OSRAM SYLVANIA, which I pass on to you: OSRAM SYLVANIA seeks a Principal LED Power Supply Electronics Engineer in Danvers, MA. Is it you? Just imagine working within an entrepreneurial, technology driven, fast pace, high-impact, environment where you are the one establishing new standards within an evolving [...]